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i I INVENTORIIZ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEVI BYWATER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN E.

.HANIFEN & 00., OF SAME PLACE.

KNITTEDYFABRICL SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,888, dated December 13, 1887.

Application filed December 22, 1883.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEVI BYWATER, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residingin the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Knitted Fabrics, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a face view of a piece of textile fabric embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a face View of the fabric prior to finishing. Fig. 3 is a section thereof in line 00 at, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a top or plan View of a portion of a knitting-machine employed in manufacturing the fabric shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Fig. 5 represents a side and Fig. 6 a front view of a portion of the machine, including the wheels which place the woolen thread around the needles. Fig. 7 represents a horizontal section of the plugged or picknp wheel. Fig. 8 represents a top view of wheel D, shown in Figs. 5 and 6. Fig. 9 shows the position of the tl'lread-forming fabric.

Similarletters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists of a new and improved textile fabric having the face yarn thereof looped on the stitches of the back yarn,as hereinafter set forth, the said face, which is formed of mohair, worsted, or other yarn, being beat up so as to present a wavy or curly surface, and the'back, which is formed of woolen or other yarn, brushed, so as to present a smooth surface, the fabric having the appearance of looped or Astrakhan cloth.

In carrying out my invention I employ a circular-knitting machine,which is ofthe form shown in Fig. 4, in which D represents abacking-wheel mounted on a shaft properly secured to the stationary frame E, the said wheel having projections on its periphery, as shown in Fig. 8, so as to alternately press back two of the needles F in their revolution and then leave two unpressed.

G represents a second backing-wheel placed at right angles to the wheel D, and having fingers which mesh with the said needles.

H is a clearing-wheel for pushing the rough threads of the facing B down the needles and out of the way of the binding-thread.

usual. form.

Serial No. 115.857. (Speeimena) J is a loop-wheel of the ordinary form and construction.

K is a pick-up wheel having a portion ofthe spaces between the fingers thereof 0pen,while the rest are filled, two spaces being open and two spaces closed, alternately, as shown in Fig. 7.

L is a loop-wheel, and is of the ordinary form, and similar in construction to the loopwheel J.

M represents a dividing-wheel for equalizing the loops.

N is a landing-wheel, which is placed on the inside of the needles, and which raises the lowest backing-thread.

O is a presser-wheel, and is so placed as to act in unison with the landing-wheel N.

P represents a knocking-over wheel of the The different wheels are, except as herein described, of the usual form and construction, and are properly journaled in bearings suitably attached to the frame.

Q represents a curved eloth-presser of usual form.

The operation of knitting my improved fabric is as follows: The thread b, of which the loop is to be formed, consists of mohair, worsted, or other yarn, and constitutes the So rough face B, and is placed upon the needles by the backing-wheels, so that it is alternately in front of and then behind two needles, the loops being uniformly scattered by means of said backing-wheel D, which in a four-feeder knitter are so set that for successive rows of the fabric they alternately press back different needles, thus forming the loops on alternate stitches of adjacent rows. The clearing-wheel H then takes down the rough thread I), which forms the face B, until the same is below the first loop-wheel, J ,which places a thread, a, of woolen or other yarn different from that of the thread b, forming a backing, A, under every beard, and ties down the face thread I). The 5 pick-up wheel K then raises the face thread b, and at the same time presses the beards of the needles back, so that the face thread in the front of the needles is lifted and passed over the said beards to the top of the needles, the too beards of the needles being pressed back by their coming in contact with the filling in the spaces of the said pick-up wheel K. As this is being done the woolen back engages with the loop of the thread a, put on by the first loop-wheel. The loop-wheel L now places a binding-thread, c, which constitutes a part of the backing of the fabric, on the needles. The dividing-wheel M equalizes the loop, and the landing-wheel N then raises the lower back thread, While the presser wheel 0 presses back the beards, so that the threads may pass over, the knocking-wheel 1? then pulling or drawing the thread over the needles, the result of the operation being such that when the fabric is removed from the machine its face has the appearance of long wavy lines, as seen in Fig. 2. The tubular fabric thus produced is afterward removed from the machine and boiled. It is then cut longitudinally through, thereby producing a web the shape ofa looms Woven fabric. The back is then brushed, so

as to cover the stitches and give a smooth surface thereto, and the face is beat up in the ordinary manner, whereby the loops are matted or curled, so that the said face has a rough, curly, or wavy surface, the fabric presenting the appearance of looped or Astrakhan cloth, as stated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A knitted fabric composed of face and back yarns of different materials, the face yarn being looped at regular intervals and on alternate stitches of adjacent rows of the back yarn and beat up, and having a brushed back covering the stitches thereof, whereby the said fabric presents the appearance of looped or Astrakhan cloth, as stated.

2. A knitted fabric composed of face and back yarns of different materials, the face yarn being looped at regular intervals and on alternate stitches of adjacent rows of the back yarn, and being matted and curly and having a smooth back, whereby the said fabric has the appearance of looped or Astrakhan cloth, as described.

LEVI BYWATER. Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, A. P. GRANT. 

